[Pkg-phototools-devel] Bug#945402: Bug#945402: feh: Please add dcraw to the Suggests (or even Recommends) of the package

[László Böszörményi (GCS)]

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Hi Elena,

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 12:27 PM Elena ``of Valhalla''
<valhalla at debian.org> wrote:
> Up to buster, feh was able to open (a preview of) the raw files
> generated by my camera (Canon EOS 1100D); after upgrading to bullseye it
> fails with the following error::
>
>     OJPEGDecodeRaw: Inconsistent number of MCU in codestream.
>     feh WARNING: 20171230/141140-img_5195.cr2 - No Imlib2 loader for that file format
 I think it was a regression due to an other package. Can you please
do a full upgrade of your Bullseye installation and re-test your image
with feh? Maybe share that file in private somehow?

> However, after a number of attempts, reading the manpage I noticed that
> there is a better way to show raw files in feh, by using dcraw.
>
> I think that having dcraw available in the Suggests of the package would
> have helped me find this option much earlier, as that's the first thing
> I checked, to see if I was missing some optional dependency.
 I think it should go to Suggests. I use Recommends if that extends
the package in some way.

Regards,
Laszlo/GCS